"Robert Bork, a martyr of conservative legal thought whose 1987 nomination
to the Supreme Court was sunk by liberals."

You can't be
serious!

Bork's nomination was sunk by himself.

He was
complicit with Nixon in the Watergate cover-up (search "Saturday Night
Massacre").

He supported a free-for-all among the States when it
comes to polls, opposing standards of voting fairness - he supported the rights
of Southern states to impose a poll tax!

He repeatedly expressed
legal opinions that favored an unrestrained Executive authority, verging on
executive supremacy... about as close to a dictatorship as one can imagine
outside of post-Weimar Germany.

His "originalist" views and
belief that the Constitution does not contain a general "right to
privacy", as well as his opposition to Roe v. Wade, are a direct threat to
individual liberty.

I will give Bork credit for his position on gun
control. He has denounced the "NRA view" of the Second Amendment,
instead arguing that the Second Amendment merely guarantees a right to
participate in a government militia.

Bork is an elitist whose
understanding of the Constitution is so muddled that he likened the Ninth
Amendment to an inkblot: uninterpretable.

The last thing we need is another Obama. Romney has just confirmed my dislike
and lack of trust in his inabilities. Another man who doesn't know what he wants
so he is setting up a panel of people just in case he needs guidance and give
him deniabilty. We need a leader, not an idiot with no brain or spine.

The constitution provides for all the panel of helpers and advisers he should
ever need as a president without employing half the US as alternate advisers. If
what the constitution provides is not enough then he is incompetent and unfit to
lead this nation.

Is this the same originalism as espoused by Mike Lee, who then on the Senate
floor this past week said that the powers granted to Congress by the
Constitution should be limited by our current day society? The problem with
these people is that it is not about so-called original intent, which is pretty
much impossible to divine for today's issues, it is that they are selective in
how they want to apply it. I would bet that the Founding Fathers would be
appalled by our current conservative Supreme Court giving individual rights that
we have to corporations. The conservatives are not about the principles of the
Founding Fathers, they are about amassing more political and economic power.